Throughout world history, nations that set education as their foremost priority have had an uninterrupted record of development and progress. Due to...
In my previous articles on these pages I referred to several movements of resistance against the British Empire in India. These movements were...
In my previous article, Colonialism and resistance , I briefly described the Anglo-Indian battles, suggesting that the process of colonisation was...
The colonisation of India by the British was not straight and smooth. A stiff resistance was put up by the local states that engaged East India...
In The Prison Notebooks, Gramsci builds his argument that hegemony can be attained through political or civil society. The political society uses a...
In my write up, ‘Indian Indigenous Education’, published in these pages on March 21, 2016, I tried to confront some popular stereotypes...
India was portrayed by the colonisers as a dark and mysterious land where people were illiterate and uncultured. The positional superiority enjoyed...
Colonialism and imperialism share a common design for the expansion and control of the economy and political systems of other countries. The history...
The conservative paradigm of education believes in the fixity of knowledge and focuses on its transmission from one generation to the next...